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Utility crews from around the country are volunteering their time to install electricity on the Navajo Nation. Many Navajos today live without light, running water and the internet — things most anyone takes for granted.

This week on The Show, we’ve been bringing you conversations about the most common complication of childbirth: postpartum depression. Pediatricians are some of the first health care providers to see new mothers after giving birth.

Even without knowing exactly what the context is, the phrase "echo chamber" has rather negative connotations. For most, it connotes a group of people who agree with each other about a subject and have gathered together to reinforce those beliefs, rather than challenge them.

Gilbert police are going through a new type of training to reach out to a previously underserved community in the Valley. All staff, both sworn and non-sworn, are all going through training provided by the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Utility regulators decided that the Arizona Public Service Company will not need to reverse its controversial $95 million rate hike that affected 1 million customers in 2017. However, they also will not dismiss a complaint about the rate hike brought forward by Phoenix resident Stacey Champion.

Sportsnet in Canada reporter John Shannon says new majority owners are taking control of the Arizona Coyotes, and Robert Sarver has quietly listed the Phoenix Suns for sale. The deals, Shannon says, could put the teams closer to sharing an arena again.

Phoenix is close to approving a final budget for the new fiscal year that starts July 1. The total general fund budget is $1.4 billion. That includes a $55 million surplus beyond what’s needed to cover city services.

A recent story in the Connecticut Mirror, a member of ProPublica’s local reporting network, by reporter Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, shows that 83 percent of municipalities in Connecticut are open to legal challenges for not having enough affordable housing. And the affordable housing that is created is relegated to the most impoverished parts of the state.

Arizona voters are now closer to the next election. Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation setting the primary for state and local elections to the first Tuesday in August instead of the last Tuesday of the month.

If legislative leadership accepts changes to a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for victims who were sexually abused as children, it would remove Sen. Paul Boyer’s threat to hold up a budget vote.

According to a report made Tuesday, Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals is looking to sell a portion of its ownership in the Rosemont Mine. The proposed open pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson would be the third largest copper mine in the United States.

Lawyers for an incapacitated woman who was raped and later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility have filed a $45 million notice of claim against the state, saying she may have been impregnated before.